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It seems the releases are staggered across the EU, not every EU country went live the same day as the UK did.

Regarding ebay they are selling but also some are been delisted before all stock is sold, one has to be aware of possible scams because ebay buyer protection is only a limited time, and the shipping date on the adverts is way before sep 29.

Before I got the dutch unit I put a offer in of £90 for one unit and was turned down but he did accept an offer of £89 from someone else.

Another one was selling at buy it now for £89 but I held off as the seller only had a 13 rating, with 0 left the advert abruptly got pulled which was odd.

Regarding ebay they are selling but also some are been delisted before all stock is sold, one has to be aware of possible scams because ebay buyer protection is only a limited time, and the shipping date on the adverts is way before sep 29.

You're absolutely right. There is a tendency with some items for sellers to take part in shill selling as well (i.e. using other accounts to 'fake buy' their items) to make it look like items are selling for more than they are (thereby prompting genuine sales at higher prices), or to make it look like demand is higher than it is.

Personally I wouldn't even consider buying one on Ebay at this point, if for no other reason than so many more are going to be on Ebay once they are actually released, which should drive prices down. The risk of being let down or being scammed is too high at this point anyway as you say, but there's a decent chance that they'll also be available cheaper when they are released.

I managed to get one from Smyths click and collect (will prob get cancelled) thought it was the idea xmas present for my 5 year old to get him into gaming rather than him wanting to play GTA like his bigger cousins on a PS4

Privately you could purchase a pre order receipt from someone for somewhere like GAME, but the listings on Ebay are for the actual console, so you're buying hoping that the person will get their pre order, and that they will get it to you before your Ebay buyer protection expires. It's not a situation I would want to be a part of.

Those who got from the original retailers like the above few posters, how did you do so.

Because they were sold out within 24 minutes. I will repeat that, between now and when preorders went live which is over a week ago, there was only stock for 24 minutes.

The people who succeeded would for one of these reasons.

1 - They got extremely lucky they just happened to check in the very small window stock was available, I calculated the odds of that happening to be similar to getting 5 numbers on the lottery.
2 - Was on nintendo new product announcement list, this of course means you get spam for a load of junk products as well but would allow you to know when stock went up on nintendos website.
3 - Following the right people on twitter or other social media and may have got lucky on the spread of info.
4 - Using an automated tool, this one a friend of mine has confessed how he managed to get one from amazon.
5 - Word of mouth from people you know so e.g. a work colleague just orders one then tells the person next to them.

I find it hard to believe you guys just casually checked to see if could buy a snes mini online and bam there was stock.

Tesco without warning, put up stock last night, it survived a bit longer than others, presumably because no one was expecting it but it still barely lasted an hour.

Argos have relisted the product and for 3 days have a page syaing "orders opening soon", soon i obviously a very vague word so isnt very useful, I dont know why none of the retailers can not specify a time and date when they will start taking orders.

I seem to be the only one on here who wants a mini snes but has failed to get one from any uk retailer, but I did order one from dutch retailer 'bol'.

1 - They got extremely lucky they just happened to check in the very small window stock was available, I calculated the odds of that happening to be similar to getting 5 numbers on the lottery.
2 - Was on nintendo new product announcement list, this of course means you get spam for a load of junk products as well but would allow you to know when stock went up on nintendos website.
3 - Following the right people on twitter or other social media and may have got lucky on the spread of info.
4 - Using an automated tool, this one a friend of mine has confessed how he managed to get one from amazon.
5 - Word of mouth from people you know so e.g. a work colleague just orders one then tells the person next to them.

The odds of 1 aren't the same as a lottery win. I imagine plenty of people have reserved stock by casually (albeit persistently) checking retailers. For most people though I expect it will be number 3. I managed to reserve one at Argos simply because I happened to check Facebook when a post went up about Argos, and I clicked through and ordered one probably within 5 or 10 minutes of the pre orders going live. So I was just lucky.

Though I did also put myself down for stock announcements from Nintendo, and my phone gives me an alert when I get a new email. As it happens I wasn't near my phone when I got that alert, and by the time I saw it the pre orders had all gone, but had I been near my phone I would have been able to reserve one with Nintendo.

Not just that but a much wider choice of games as well, while they've chosen a great selection of games there's not very many and while I can appreciate there will be licensing issues in some cases there's many fantastic Nintendo games missing as well. I guess the fact there's such an unreal level of hype for the product means they don't really need to bother.

Those who got from the original retailers like the above few posters, how did you do so.

Because they were sold out within 24 minutes. I will repeat that, between now and when preorders went live which is over a week ago, there was only stock for 24 minutes.

The people who succeeded would for one of these reasons.

1 - They got extremely lucky they just happened to check in the very small window stock was available, I calculated the odds of that happening to be similar to getting 5 numbers on the lottery.
2 - Was on nintendo new product announcement list, this of course means you get spam for a load of junk products as well but would allow you to know when stock went up on nintendos website.
3 - Following the right people on twitter or other social media and may have got lucky on the spread of info.
4 - Using an automated tool, this one a friend of mine has confessed how he managed to get one from amazon.
5 - Word of mouth from people you know so e.g. a work colleague just orders one then tells the person next to them.

I find it hard to believe you guys just casually checked to see if could buy a snes mini online and bam there was stock.

Tesco without warning, put up stock last night, it survived a bit longer than others, presumably because no one was expecting it but it still barely lasted an hour.

Argos have relisted the product and for 3 days have a page syaing "orders opening soon", soon i obviously a very vague word so isnt very useful, I dont know why none of the retailers can not specify a time and date when they will start taking orders.

I seem to be the only one on here who wants a mini snes but has failed to get one from any uk retailer, but I did order one from dutch retailer 'bol'.

Those who got from the original retailers like the above few posters, how did you do so.

Because they were sold out within 24 minutes. I will repeat that, between now and when preorders went live which is over a week ago, there was only stock for 24 minutes.

The people who succeeded would for one of these reasons.

1 - They got extremely lucky they just happened to check in the very small window stock was available, I calculated the odds of that happening to be similar to getting 5 numbers on the lottery.
2 - Was on nintendo new product announcement list, this of course means you get spam for a load of junk products as well but would allow you to know when stock went up on nintendos website.
3 - Following the right people on twitter or other social media and may have got lucky on the spread of info.
4 - Using an automated tool, this one a friend of mine has confessed how he managed to get one from amazon.
5 - Word of mouth from people you know so e.g. a work colleague just orders one then tells the person next to them.

I find it hard to believe you guys just casually checked to see if could buy a snes mini online and bam there was stock.

Tesco without warning, put up stock last night, it survived a bit longer than others, presumably because no one was expecting it but it still barely lasted an hour.

Argos have relisted the product and for 3 days have a page syaing "orders opening soon", soon i obviously a very vague word so isnt very useful, I dont know why none of the retailers can not specify a time and date when they will start taking orders.

I seem to be the only one on here who wants a mini snes but has failed to get one from any uk retailer, but I did order one from dutch retailer 'bol'.

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